If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

He that's secure is not safe.

When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.